In the city of Nimrud, the threshold of a palace destroyed by the Islamic State (a banned organization in Russia) (IS) has been discovered. About informs ART News.
The terrorist group IS advocated an extremist version of Wahhabism; this implies a literal interpretation of the Qur’an and the eradication of non-Islamic culture in Muslim circles, including pre-Islamic. For this reason, the IS leadership not only neglected the archaeological sites of the ancient world located in Iraq and Syria, but also deliberately destroyed them. With the help of construction equipment, the Assyrian city of Nimrud was destroyed, including.
During new archaeological work that began after the area was liberated from terrorists, archaeologists discovered traces of the palace of Adad-Nirari III, who ruled Assyria in 810-783 BC. Until now, only the threshold of the palace has been found. Cuneiform inscriptions can be seen on the massive stone slab. “It’s like ‘forensic’ archeology. “We had to re-dig old digs,” says scientists.
The discovery gave archaeologists hope that ISIS has not completely destroyed the ancient palace and that restoration work can be done in the city.